The Man of Steal
Life is an undeniable ride of ups and downs, often compared to a roller coaster ride. Perhaps people are in control of the roller coaster, the pilot of their own lives choosing their destiny. Risks are taken everyday in life, whether big or small, good or bad, they are inevitable. Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, took risks that were unknown at the time of his notoriety. He created a new era of thought and thirst for growth and knowledge about the world. Aristotle consistently took prodigious measures towards the future generations of the world by questioning earth's existence and he created a scientific, political, and social solidarity.
Aristotle took many great risks for the advancement of science by exposing the power the
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He openingly shared his knowledge, as he believed it was the only way for human civilization to advance. Aristotle was a debated household name. He brought new ideas to social interaction. Not only that but he gave people virtues to live by. Aristotle put himself in a tough situation socially as he objected to the esoteric reasoning that the people of Greece persuaded. He had high hopes for better standards for the future. Aristotle had lots of supporters in his research studies. This being said, he also had a large number of despisers. Aristotle was constantly overlooked and pushed down for going against traditional thinking. Despite this, Aristotle was accepting of all points of views. He understood the values of traditional views but he also wanted to give the people more options in beliefs when it came to Earth’s beginnings. He did not care about social status as much as sharing his views with the public. Aristotle was the most adored and commemorated man alive during this time period, but he was also the most hated. Aristotle was often referred to as a social injustice. Athen’s citizens were categorized as the most intelligent in the world, with a perfect system of life, but yet Aristotle was simply a breach in their flawless …show more content…
However, Aristotle was the most influential historical figure in the creation of the Athens government. The government of Athens was a democracy, this means that the government was directly related to the people. Once Aristotle started to gain the popular support, the people inflicted their new views on the government. His teachings covered a variety of topics, including political views, which are most overlooked in modern times. He had profound ideas that were loved by most Athenians. Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great then went on to conquer lots of land for the Greek government. As time went by, the government began to despise Aristotle for the power of knowledge he was giving the people. The government then sentenced him to life in prison for changing the people’s political views on god. Aristotle escaped to a remote island and lived out the rest of his days. To say that Aristotle had no direct influence over the government would be an outrage. He was the most transforming figure in greek political history, he changed the way the government system was govern and looked at by the
“…people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want" (79). Both protagonist learned about the dangers of fear through the tribulations of their journey. Although life may constantly though curveballs our way, it is important to learn how to take risks. One must to have the audacity to continue on. Odysseus, a courageous Greek hero, would not have made it very far if he was apprehensive of taking risks. Instead, he sought
Everyone has taken risks whether they be big or not, they will lead you down the path you choose in life. In the short stories Beowulf, Black Heart, and The Deep taking risks was a big part in all three. In Beowulf, there is many risks that he took, but the main one was that he risked his life to save the people that he loved. In the second book Black Heart by Mark Brazaitis, the girl risked her life to make friends with something she knew could kill her because she was so lonely. In the final book, The Deep by Anthony Doerr the main character made risks every day because he never knew if he was going to wake up to see the next.
Taking a risk is something very few people are willing to do. If you think about it all the greats had to take a risk before they succeed in anything. In The Odyssey, Odysseus takes a huge risk fighting in wars, trying to get back to his beloved Penelope. Much like Vincent Willem van Gogh , A painter, who took huge risks living off of his art, but now he is One of the greatest painters of all times. They both risked their lives to succeed in something great.Van Gogh could have gone broke and starved to death Odysseus could have died at sea or in war. People take risks every time they get up and present a paper or show people there art work. You could mess up, but you also could succeed. This quote from book twelve, “ But as I sent them on toward
Aristotle was born in 384 B.C., in Northern Greece. His father was a physician to the king of Macedonia, Amyntas II. Amyntas II was the grandfather of Alexander the Great. When Aristotle was still a boy, both of his parents died; so he was raised by a guardian named Proxenus. At the age of seventeen, he went to Athens to attend Plato's school, the Academy. Aristotle stayed at the Academy for twenty years as a student, a research assistant, a lecturer, and a research scientist. After Plato died, he moved and lived with Hermeias, a former pupil of Plato. During his three year stay, Aristotle married princess Pithias, Hermeias's daughter. The couple had two children: a son named Nicomachus and a daughter. In 342 B.C., Aristotle was invited to educate Alexander by Philip of Macedon. He taught Alexander until King Philip was assassinated, then Alexander became ruler. In 335 B.C., he left Macedonia and returned to Athens to found a school named Lyceum. Twelve years later, when Alexander died, the Athenians charged Aristotle with impiety because they resented his relationship with Alexander and other influential Macedonians. Aristotle said that he would not let the Athenians "sin twice against philosophy" (Soll, 663), so he fled to Chalcis. One year later he died at the age of sixty-two.
Aristotle, a student of Plato, is known for his contributions in many fields of philosophy, ethics being one of the most prominent. He produced the first methodical and collected ethical system to be produced by an ancient Greek philosopher, found in his book the Nicomachean Ethics. This, along with the less-read Eudemian Ethics, are his ethical accounts that we have today.
It is a generally accepted fact that Aristotle's physics and astronomy were the weakest of his areas of study. He made discoveries and developed theories in biology, ethics, and drama that still hold a great deal of importance in those fields today. However, many of his theories and hypotheses were not disproved unitl the nineteenth century and his original concept of a uniform and consistant flow of time was accepted by Newton and still has its place in physics today. We really cannot discount the scientific contributions of a man whose ideas have survived for over 2000 years.
These things, however, could only be achieved by a mind that had been properly trained. One of his idea forms was his vision of government. He did not trust the democracy. He felt that the highest rank should belong to the philosophers who were also kings, followed by the courageous, and ended with the rest of who must have desire. He established the Academy at which he taught Aristotle.
His first job was to train Alexander the Great before he had become the king of ancient Greece. Then Aristotle headed out south to work with Plato for a bit, but then branched out on his own. He founded a school called the Lyceum, his student followers were nicknamed peripatetics which means the wanderers. Is many books are based on lecture notes (politics, poetics, metaphysics, rhetoric, etc.). Aristotle raised a lot of good questions regarding things such as, “why do plants grow in some countries, but not in others,” and “what makes a whole society and a human life go well”? Philosophy is all about practical knowledge and wisdom suggests Aristotle. He answered four big philosophical questions asked, one of them is: what makes people happy? He came to a conclusion that each person needs to find its virtues and nurture them in themselves and honor them in others. Aristotle came up with 11 virtues, such as courage, temperance, and liberality are just some of them. He also observed that every virtue is in the middle of two vices (fig. 3) which is known as the Golden Mean between two extremes of character. (Carr, 2016).
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who was a student of Plato. His work constituted the first comprehensive system of western philosophy. A majority of his work was response to the work of his predecessors such as Socrates and Plato and like them thinks that virtues are essential in leading a well lived life. The Nicomachean ethics was his best known work in the field of ethics and important in development of modern philosophy. In consisted of ten different books in which he looks into and describes the nature of the good life.
Aristotle was a man among boys in terms of his philosophical genius and ideas. In the history of human kind Aristotle ranks well up on the list of greatest thinkers. Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre that echo by even today's standards. He was a student of Plato, another genius thinker of the philosophical world, who in turn studied under Socrates. All three men are pillars of philosophy.
To the modern reader, Aristotle's views on astronomy, as presented in Metaphysics, Physics, De Caelo (On the Heavens) and Simplicius' Commentary, will most likely seem very bizarre, as they are based more on a priori philosophical speculation than empirical observation. Although Aristotle acknowledged the importance of "scientific" astronomy - the study of the positions, distances and motions of the stars - he nevertheless treated astronomy in the abstract, linking it to his overall philosophical world picture. As a result, the modern distinction between physics and metaphysics is not present in Aristotle, and in order to fully appreciate him we must try to abandon this pre-conception. Aristotle argued that the universe is spherical and finite. Spherical, because that is the most perfect shape; finite, because it has a center, viz. the center of the earth, and a body with a center cannot be infinite. He believed that the earth, too, is a sphere. It is relatively small compared to the stars, and in contrast to the celestial bodies, always at rest. For one of his proofs of this latter point, he referred to an empirically testable fact: if the earth were in motion, an observer on it would see the fixed stars as moving, just as he now observes the planets as moving, that is from a stationary earth. However, since this is not the case, the earth must be at rest. To prove that the earth is a sphere, he produced the argument that all earthly substances move towards the center, and thus would eventually have to form a sphere.
In The Metaphysics, Aristotle states, “All men by nature desire to know.” Although, this is a generalization, of this insightful statement about the nature of humans and human understanding this statement truly captures what Aristotle was trying to figure out about humans and their thinking. Everyone has a desire to know or to understand. As rational beings we tend to contemplate very simple ideas to the most complicated, like our existence, or parts of the universe, or the universe as a whole. Aristotle is known as the father of modern day psychology and biology, even though many of his ideas of these two sciences was proven incorrect. The most important concepts of Aristotle’s theory of human understanding are the notion of cause, the infinite, and the soul.
Risks are a part of the human experience. People are used to having risks in their lives, and they usually, and unconsciously, take many risks on a daily basis. However, there are huge risks that may cause anxiety and stress. As a consequence, and between these two extremes life experiences, occur with various amounts of risk. Therefore, by facing and taking these risks they are not to be considered unusual experiences, but rather those involved in such are often time effected in a deep way as a result of what they have endured. Relatively, I can speak from personal experience due to the different types of risks that I have encountered this semester.
Although Aristotle grew up under the ideas of Plato, through time he began to develop his own theories and views about philosophical thoughts (Aristotle Biography, 2015). Aristotle believed that in order to understand the natural world to the fullest, one must use each of the five senses, all of which we use to this day. Aristotle also had his own views of the world, especially the astronomy of it. He believed the earth was at the center of the universe and the remaining planets, only 5 known at the time, were circling around it (Worldview of Ancient Greece - Socrates, Plato & Aristotle, n.d.). We know now that his views on this matter are not taught and the planets revolve around the
Humbled at last by his enemies, the father of modern science wasn’t wholly subdued. His discoveries impacted the world as we see it. Without his sacrifice and motive to fight for what he believed in, we wouldn’t be as advanced as we are today in modern science. Although society advanced by increased knowledge, having more scientific answers, and increased new developments because of the freedom to deviate from established theories, there were some negative effects. Society had lost their innocence and belief in their traditional faith. Galileo’s battle against the Church was worthwhile for generations to come. Without his inventions, theories, or introduction to the concept of theory experimenting, the world of modern science wouldn’t exist as we know it today.